From 5 to 10 September 2021 at the Milan Design Week, ECAL presents a series of projects and installations developed by Bachelor Media & Interaction Design students, that address our relationship with smartphones and the way they influence our daily behaviour.
Fantastic Smartphones, alternative accessories, interactive installations and machine performances highlight the excesses relating to our use of these devices. By imagining innovative ways of interacting with our smartphones or by delegating our repetitive actions to machines, this exhibition takes a critical look at a society that has become addicted to an object that seems to have become indispensable : the “smart” phone.
Is this object, which was initially perceived as an extension, still a source of pleasure or has it become a source of alienation? The students provide answers to this question through a series of installations that address different aspects of this issue.